Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi (Thrale) 2 Volume Set: With Notes and an Introductory Account of Her Life and Writings

by Hester Lynch Piozzi and A Hayward

Book Overview

Highly educated and accustomed to intellectual society, the writer Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821) became a close friend of Samuel Johnson through her first husband, the brewer Henry Thrale. Her second marriage, to the Italian musician Gabriel Mario Piozzi in 1784, estranged her from Johnson, but following his death she published her groundbreaking Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, anticipating Boswell's biography. In addition to publishing essays,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108059716
• ISBN13: 9781108059718
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 888 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 5.5" x 8.6"